New Video: Impact of Lifestyle Factors on Patients with Atrial Fibrillation with John Mandrola, MD
We’ve posted a new video with Dr. John Mandrola, MD, a cardiac electrophysiologist from Louisville, KY (Patti’s hometown).
In this interview, Dr Mandrola talks about the impact of lifestyle factors on patients with atrial fibrillation. He explains how in the past 5–10 years doctors have started to understand that A-Fib can be caused through “upstream” factors that affect atrial health, things that stretch the atrium like high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, even stress and anxiety, and over exercise like endurance exercise.
He describes how managing these risk factors can reduce the patient’s risk of stroke, and make a significant impact on the patient’s heart rhythm and overall health. (5:29) Go to video->
Dr John Mandrola is the chief cardiology correspondent for Medscape—a web resource for health professionals (see ‘Trials and Fibrillations with Dr John Mandrola’). In addition, he maintains a general health and fitness blog, Dr John M, and is active on social media, especially Twitter, where he can be found @DrJohnM.